[FoJaR]

descartes's famous quote is "i think therfore i am".

he was a skeptic who was trying to prove his own existence. he went through a whole lot of "what if's" before deciding "well we cant believe any of our sensory perceptions because it might just be demons making us see/hear/smell/feel things". and then he went further, with stuff like "in fact, i could just be a construct of these demons's's's's imagination. i could not be real."

and then he decided "well we can think of God, and God is perfect... so i think therefore i am"

at least, that's how i remember it.

i know for sure the part about the demons, and the fact that he was at a point where there was no hope of getting out using actual logic, so he decided to play the God card.

but anyways, the whole "demons make you see things" reminded me of that.